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Aurora (Country: Finland; Director: Miia Tervo; Writer: Miia Tervo; Stars: Oona Airola, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Amir Escandari)
Aurora, a commitment-phobic party animal, meets Iranian Darian one night at a hot-dog stand in Lapland. Darian is running from death and Aurora is running from love.
Being Impossible (Yo, Imposible) (Country: Venezuela, Colombia; Year: 2018; Director: Patricia Ortega; Writer: Enmanuel Chávez, Patricia Ortega; Stars: Belkis Avilladares, Lucía Bedoya, María Elena Duque)
A young woman discovers she was submitted to several surgeries to 'correct' her intersex body as a baby. She has to find her own self outside gender binaries.
Days Of The Whale (Country: Colombia; Year: 2018; Director: Catalina Arroyave Restrepo; Writer: Catalina Arroyave Restrepo)
Two young graffiti artists defy a criminal gang when they decide to paint over a threat, written in a wall, a mural of a whale.
Vai (Country: New Zealand; Year: 2019; Director: Becs Arahanga, Amberley Jo Aumua, Matasila Freshwater, Dianna Fuemana, Miria George, Ofa Guttenbeil, Marina McCartney, Nicole Whippy, Sharon Whippy)
A portmanteau feature film by nine female Pacific filmmakers and filmed on seven Pacific islands. It is about the journey of empowerment through culture over the lifetime of one woman, Vai.
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